Dew Drop – December 3, 2012 (#1,454)

Top Links

• Introduction to Productivity Extensions (Peter Ritchie)
• 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #30: Store and 31 Days of Windows 8 | Day #31: Design (Jeff Blankenburg)
• MonoGame For Windows 8 Step 2 – Content and MonoGame XNB Content for Express Editions (Bill Reiss)
• Free Wireframing and Prototyping Tool (Ambrose Little)
• TouchDevelop in Your Browser (Arjmand Samuel)

 

Web Development

• Baby Steps to Backbone.js: Unit Testing of Models (Alexander Beletsky)
• ASP.Net Fails to Detect IE10 without .Net Hotfix (Ben Barreth)
• Node.js Must Know Concepts: Asynchrounous (John Teague)
• New Book: HTML5 Boilerplate Web Development (Louis Lazaris)
• Nested Layouts in ASP.NET MVC and Create new ASP.NET MVC views the easy way (Michael Kennedy)
• Windows Azure Active Directory: Making it easier to establish Identity Management in the cloud (Steven Martin)
• Using Inline SVGs With HTML5 (Sue Smith)
• Who could ask for more with LESS CSS? (Part 3 of 3–Clrizr) (ToString(theory))
• Rails 4 Countdown to 2013 (Kevin Faustino & Rida Al Barazi)
• Web Essentials nightly builds (Mads Kristensen)
• Allowing Users To Self Register In Your LightSwitch Website (Michael Washington)
• Practical Azure #4: Using the Content Delivery Network (Jim O’Neil)
• Stupid Question 95: what is the difference between a web app and a web site? (Iris Classon)
• Web standards advocacy needs to start answering questions of the now (Christian Heilmann)

 

XAML

• A Neat Way to Set the Cursor in WPF (Michael Ceranski)
• Integrate Windows Phone 8 Functionality Into Windows Phone 7 Apps (Nick Randolph)
• Acquiring a single Geoposition in Windows Phone 8 (Adam Denning)
• Windows Phone 8: Multiple Screen Resolutions (Peter Kuhn)
• Wpf Design Time Data part 3 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• 2000 WPF Things #703 – Indicating Formats that Are Allowed to be Dropped (Sean Sexton)
• Windows Phone Store market expansion and new game ratings (Todd Brix)
• WP8 XAML and DirectX App Crashes When Adding Navigation (Toni Petrina)
• MVVM ICommand , Lambda Expression for Can Execute Changed (Yasser Moradi DNP)
• Creating Windows Store App Using PhoneGap (Cordova) (Shai Raiten)
• Scaled DPI-aware image assets for Windows 8 Apps in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 (Pete Brown)
• App Development Snack: Windows Store File Type Association Icons (Robert MacLean)
• A Terrible Way to Set Up Commands in Your View Model (Matt Lacey)
• Problem: Unable to activate Windows Store app: This app failed to launch because of an issue with its license (Iris Classon)
• First Look: Telerik Rad Controls for Windows 8 (Zubair Ahmed)

 

Miscellaneous .NET

• Weak References and Weak References in .NET 4.5 (Richard Carr)
• Managing RavenDB Document Store startup (Oren Eini)
• My collection of favourite TFS utilities (Aaron Kowall)
• Profiling Startup Of VS2012 – JustTrace Profiler (Alois Kraus)
• Debugger Source Symbol Improvements to Visual Studio 2012 (Daniel Moth)
• Visual Studio 2012 Image Library – 5,000+ images downloadable now… (Think, flat "modern" images…) (Greg Duncan)
• Visual Studio Light Edition (Jan Van Ryswyck)
• WCF Data Services 5.1 (Jerry Nixon)
• HowTo: Subscribe to Failed TFS Builds (juristr)
• Exceptions vs. Return Values to represent errors (in F#) – III–The Critical monad (Luca Bolognese)
• C# to Objective-C – Part 8 : Memory Management (Stephen Zaharuk)
• I Wish C# Didn’t Throw When Iterating Over Null Collections (Toni Petrina)
• "Metaprogramming in .NET" is Done (Jason Bock)
• ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in (Willy-P. Schaub)
• Babel Obfuscator 6.1.0.0 Released (Alberto Ferrazzoli)
• Why C++ Is Not “Back” (John Sonmez)
• The debugger lied to you because it the CPU was still juggling data in the air (Raymond Chen)
• Book “Team Foundation Server 2012 Starter” published (Terje Sandstrom)
• Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 (Martin Hinshelwood)
• XInput PInvoking your XBox 360 Controller (Greg Duncan)
• Some notes on performance tuning with NHibernate (Jef Claes)
• New Power Tools for Update 1 are available (Brian Harry)

 

Design / Methodology / Testing

• Unit Testing Use Up in 2012 (Avi Kaye)
• How Using Competencies and Mental Shifts has Helped Agile Adoption (Ben Linders)
• SOA with REST: Principles, Patterns & Constraints for Building Enterprise Solutions with REST (Cruz Castillo)
• BDD Exchange videos (Gojko Adzic)
• What Is Agile (Gil Zilberfeld)
• DZone Refcardz – Patterns of Modular Architecture (Kirk Knoernschild)
• New Book: Team Collaboration: Using Microsoft Office for More Effective Teamwork (Valerie Woolley)
• Testing socket.io apps (Swizec Teller)
• On Uniqueness, and Difference (Ted Neward)
• Efficiency and Effectiveness and some thoughts about it (Peter Gfader)
• Model Binding Fundamentals (Pranav Rastogi)
• When I’m most productive (Jeremy D. Miller)
• Collaboration cache—colocation (Eric Brechner)
• Questions for a Software Engineer (Filip Ekberg)
• 7 Mistakes of Software Testing (Glenn Dejaeger)
• Branching and Merging Guidance for Team Foundation Server (Brian Keller)
• Using Mindjet’s MindManager (Chance Brown)

 

Other Mobile Platforms

• Resources for Android App Development (Anand Narayanaswamy)
• Next for iOS: better sharing (Axel Rauschmayer)
• Sencha Architect and Formatting Dates in GridPanel (Peter Kellner)

 

Podcasts / Screencasts / Videos

• Hanselminutes – Developing the Hulu Windows 8 app (Scott Hanselman)
• Gweek 077: Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Chef (Mark Frauenfelder)
• TWC9: Visual Studio 2012 Update 1, Windows Phone 8, Hilo and more… | This Week On Channel 9 (Brian Keller, Dan Fernandez & Greg Duncan)
• Technology & Friends Episode 242: Ted Neward on The Advantages of F# (David Giard)
• Major Nelson Podcast Show 459: Video Game Awards (Larry Hyrb)
• The Windows Developer Show Episode 094 – “Burning Buildings and Building Apps” (Ryan Lowdermilk & Travis Lowdermilk)
• The Vergecast 056 – November 29th, 2012 (Brendan Murphy)
• Windows Weekly 288: Scroogled (Paul Thurrott)
• ShopTalk Episode 45 (Chris Coyier)
• Hello World (Clemens Vasters)
• The JavaScript Show – jQuery 1.8.3 (Peter Cooper & Jason Seifer)
• The Cloudcast, Ep. 65: Cloud Cost Concerns (Brian Gracely)
• SitePoint Podcast #190: Open Source Projects with Dave Rupert (Karn Broad)
• TouchDevelop: A touch-first IDE for the Web created with TypeScript | Build 2012 (Michal Moskal)
• Boagworld – Web advice as quick audio tips (Paul Boag)
• Engadget Podcast 318 – 11.30.2012 (Trent Wolbe)

 

Community / Events

• This Monday at the SF Bay Area F# Meetup: Building a customizable business rules engine with F# (Don Syme)
• December Technical Calendar (Jim O’Neil)
• The 14 Most Inspirational Kids of 2012 (Joann Pan)
• Announcing a Web Camps Winter World Tour starting December 2012 (Jon Galloway)
• The Open Group Conference in Newport Beach (Mike Walker)
• Upcoming Events for December 3rd, 2012 (G. Andrew Duthie)

 

Database

• Install SQL Server 2012 Using SysPrep (Rajendra Gupta)
• SQL SERVER – Find Referenced or Referencing Object in SQL Server using sys.sql_expression_dependencies and SQL SERVER – Fix Error: Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error ’80040e07′ or Microsoft SQL Native Client error ’80040e07′ (Pinal Dave)
• SQL Advent 2012 Day 2: Data types storage differences (Denis Gobo)
• Management Studio Database Diagram Owners (William Assaf)

 

SharePoint

• BCS OData Custom Authentication using Extension Provider (Venkatesh Narayanan)

 

Miscellaneous

• Exclusive: Microsoft bringing cloud music player to SkyDrive.com (damaster)
• GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide #5 — Gadgets (Dave Banks)
• I’m Going to Make a Lot of People Mad: Criticizing the Uncriticizable (Shannon Behrens)
• Microsoft’s Surface Pro: Yep, this feels like a tough sell (Todd Bishop)

 

More Link Collections

• Interesting Finds: December 1, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 2, 2012 and Interesting Finds: December 3, 2012 (Jason Haley)
• Visual Studio ALM Links week 48/2012 (Ricci Gian Maria)
• Geek Reading November 30, 2012 (Rob Diana)
• Friday Five – November 30, 2012 (MVP Award Program)
• Pie in the Sky (November 30, 2012) (Brian Swan)
• The Morning Brew #1245 (Chris Alcock)
• Collective #40 (Mary Lou)
• The Daily Six Pack: December 1, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 2, 2012 and The Daily Six Pack: December 3, 2012 (Dirk Strauss)
• Daily News Digest 11/30/2012 and Daily News Digest 12/3/2012 (Silverlight Show)
• Reading Notes #73 (Frank)
• Friday Miscellany #2 (Eric Battalio)
• Windows Azure Community News Roundup (Edition #47) (Himanshu Singh)

 

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